We are fed up with the needless and growing complexity in the container ecosystem and are previewing a new open source project that takes a first step in trying to simplify containers, networking, orchestration and app deployments with Flockport.

People should be able to focus on their apps and not get bogged down with infrastructure that should be as easy to use as possible, fade into the background and be robust.

And give proper credit and recognition to all the wonderful open source Linux technology and projects that make containers and orchestration possible.

Disclosure - I am part of the Flockport team. This is the exact problem Flockport tries to solve with LXC containers. You can download containers of popular apps and web stacks and launch them in seconds.

And you get all the advantages of LXC containers; portability, flexibility and near bare-metal performance. You can deploy multiple versions of apps and stacks all in their own containers, you are not wedded to any host, your apps and workloads in containers are portable and can be moved easily across any Linux host. It's like a mobile server. And you get clones, backups, snapshots. It's a complete delight to work with.

LXC containers are lightweight and give you all the advantages of virtualization without the performance overhead. LXC is supported in the vanilla Linux kernel and most distros have ready to install packages, we have a repo for Debian Wheezy as it doesn't have updated packages. You have to install LXC and after that every thing is a quick download and deploy.